Real Estate Investor Magazine South Africa March 2014 | Page 43

CAPITAL PRESERVATION AT ITS CORE
Prescient Investment Management is a leading quantitative asset manager, headquartered in Cape Town with additional offices in
Dublin, Windhoek, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Stellenbosch. Prescient also has a representative office in Shanghai and we
were the first asset manager in Africa to be awarded a QFII (Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor) licence to invest directly into
China.
Founded in old stables, Prescient has evolved into a global player. It has been 15 years since we opened our doors for business,
offering to the market our unique quantitative approach to asset management. With capital preservation at the core, Prescient’s
investment philosophy is simple: PEACE OF MIND.
At Prescient Investment Management we aim to give our clients a level of certainty around their
investment outcomes, with a commitment to achieve no less than the agreed risk benchmark, and
thereafter to look for opportunities to add value over and above this benchmark. We do not merely
diversify risk: risk is measured and managed holistically using proven quantitative techniques.
Our systematic approach to managing risk is scalable and enables us to replicate our investment
process across all markets. When it comes to implementing our process, we adopt a team-based
approach and consistently work together in a streamlined manner. Each of us understands our
clients’ risk tolerances and this knowledge helps us to meet their expectations of not losing
capital.
Prescient aims to deliver only the highest quality of service, and hence we do not outsource our
portfolio administration. Retaining our own administration provides us with full control of our
service delivery and allows us to monitor service quality across all areas of business, thus remaining
fully accountable to our clients.
Prescient Investment Management has been named Absolute Returns Manager of the Year at
the 2013 Imbasa Yegolide Awards for Professional Excellence, hosted by the Principal Officers
Association (POA) to acknowledge outstanding se